THE ANxXALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL UISTOKY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 21. SEPTEMBER 1909. 



XVI T. — A Revisioti of the Australian Speri'es of the Genus 

 Scolia. By Rowland E. Turner, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Australia is not very rich in species of Scolia, but as tliere 

 lias been some confusion in the narnini^ and as to the sexes, 

 I think a revision may be useful. Probably more species will 

 yet be discovered in the Discolia group, for which I have had 

 least material available, but my material in other "groups has 

 been very extensive. In addition to the series in tlie British 

 Museum, I have been able to use the fine series sent by 

 Mr. H. M. Giles from Western Australia and my own 

 collection from Queensland. The divisions into genera and 

 subgenera are more convenient than natural, the nouration, on 

 which the division is founded, often differing in the most 

 nearly allied species. I have been obliged to sink the name 

 Elis used by Saussure for the species with two recurrent 

 nervures, seeing that the Fabrician definition of Elis is 

 almost certainly taken from a male Plesia. The name must 

 therefore be used for Plesia, Jur., over which I think it has 

 priority, aiul not for the genus to which it is usually applied 

 and for which Campsomerisj Lep., must ht used. 



Outside the genus ScoH'i, taken in the wider sense, the 

 family Scoliidaj is represented in Australia by a single species 

 of Jiphia, which, as far as I know, only occurs in tropical 

 Queensland, and by a considerable number of species of 

 Anthobosca, a genus now entirely confined to the continents 



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